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Common Minimum Programme of UPA Government
Energy Security:
The UPA government will immediately put in place policies to enhance the
country's energy security particularly in the area of oil. Overseas investments in
the hydrocarbon industry will be actively encouraged. An integrated energy
policy linked with sustainable development will be put in place.
Election Manifesto of National Democratic Alliance for 2004
General Elections (Agenda for Oil and Gas Sector):-
• Enhanced oil production through increased exploitation of own
resources as well as purchase of ownership in oil fields overseas.
• Dependence on fossil fuels to be lessened through a concerted
drive for harnessing non-conventional energy sources.
• Commercial exploitation of discovered gas fields will begin by
2005.
• The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Bill will be
enacted. in 2007
It is high time that we get out of this highly complex consumers know what exactly they have to pay for
and opaque pricing policy of petroleum products petroleum products as they pay for a number of
once for all. We should take it out from the realm other products in a market economy.
of politics back to the realm of economics, so that
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